The 10-Ruble banknote is
designed on the basis of the Bank of Russia 10,000-Ruble
banknote of the 1995 issue. The banknote is 150 mm by 65 mm
and the paper is of light-yellow hue and contains violet,
red and light-green fibres. The predominant colours of
the banknote are dark-green and dark-brown. The paper has
local watermarks on the left-hand and right-hand coupon fields. On the wide coupon field is a chapel in the city
of Krasnoyarsk and on the narrow coupon field is the
figure 10. The paper contains a vertical security thread,
which is visible when the note is held to the light. The
thread bears the recurrent direct and reverse motto
"", printed in a black
colour.

On the obverse side of the
banknote are: above - the Bank of Russia logo printed in brown, the figure 10 printed in dark-green and the
embossed legend ""
(Bank
of Russia Note). In the centre is an engraving showing a
bridge across the River Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk and a
chapel on a multi-coloured background. Below is the
number 10 printed with a silvery paint, the inscription
"Counterfeiting Bank of Russia Notes Is an
Indictable Crime", embossed signs for people with
poor sight and a stylised ribbon. The ribbon bears the
motto "Krasnoyarsk", printed in a frame and two
Cyrillic letters PP, which can only be seen when the note
is scrutinised under oblique incident light (kipp-effect). To the right of the ribbon is the lettered
denomination "" (Ten
Rubles). In the lower part of the right coupon field is
a grey-coloured ornamental rosette with the
light-coloured denomination 10 in its left and right
parts and the blue- coloured figure 10 in the centre. In
the right part of the note is a multi-coloured ornamental
vertical band containing stylised fir-tree cones and twigs. In the centre of the narrow left-hand coupon field
are the code and serial number of the banknote, printed
in a red-brown colour, and in the upper part of the wide
right-hand coupon field are the code and serial number in
dark green. The code consists of two letters and the
serial number has seven digits.

In the left-hand and right-hand
upper corners of the reverse side of the banknote are the
figures 10 in dark-green patterned rosettes. In the
centre is an engraving of the dam of the Krasnoyarsk
Hydro Power Plant, with the lettered denomination below
""
(Ten Rubles); above the
denomination are seven microprinted horizontal double
bands composed of the recurrent figure 10, and on the
right is the light-coloured micropinted motto "" on nine dark-green horizontal
bands, on the right is a large figure 10, printed in a
dark-green colour and the issue year 1997, printed in a
light-brown colour. On the left in the central part is a
vertical ornamental band composed of stylised fir-tree
cones and twigs, whose untinged elements are filled with
the colour of the corresponding elements of the band on
the obverse side when the note is held to the light.